Can’t help but wonder what the dynamics of the Jiang family would’ve been if Wei Ying was a little girl instead of a little boy.
First change I think would have to happen is that madam Yu would have to find different reasons to hate her, if she even continues hating her this much. This Wei Ying is not a threat to her son’s inheritance, or to her daughter’s prospects, so that is one part of the hatred not really being there anymore.
As a result of this, Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying’s relationship would be a bit less fraught, I think. Jiang Cheng is no longer constantly being compared to Wei Ying as “he’s the son your father actually wanted, he doesn’t love you”. He can instead take more joy in a second older sister, one who likes to wrestle with him and race him in the lakes, which his sister can’t really do, but who he also might be a bit more comfortable leaning on emotionally than he might’ve been a brother.
In this AU, Yanli might bear the brunt of the comparisons, but I also think she’s more well-equipped to handle it? Female Wei Ying would still be a strong cultivator, which Yanli very much isn’t, but Yanli’s identity doesn’t revolve around her cultivation the way Jiang Cheng’s does. She’s slightly older, and as sad as it is, more used to being looked down on. She doesn’t resent Wei Ying her success the same way she doesn’t resent Jiang Cheng his.
There would also have to be a change in the rumours. I feel like one of the rumours, instead of being “Wei Wuxian is Jiang Fengmian’s bastard with Cangse Sanren” (although that rumour isn’t completely gone either), would turn into a slightly more sinister “Jiang Fengmian couldn’t have the mother, so he’s raising the daughter to become his concubine/second wife/replace his bitch of a wife”.
Which brings us to the final point: Jiang Fengmian. A lot about that man and his motives is left to speculation for the readers, and I saw many beautiful and incredibly valid interpretations of his motives. Maybe he genuinely just wanted to find his friends’ child to honour them. Maybe he wanted to earn a loyal guard to his son. Maybe he was trying to use Wei Ying as a replacement for the friends he lost.
Maybe he couldn’t have the mother, so he took the daughter.
I just think having a female Wei Ying can cause some interesting ripple effects that I’d love to explore, and isn’t just “slap different pronouns on character”.
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Something i did on twitter with my followers :D
twitter // Commissions Open // Clothes orignal post
Please don’t tag my art as CQI/Untamed
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So mermaid Wei Ying….. but listen, LISTEN
Mermaid Wei Ying who ends up in the human world after learning that the fishing family (The Dafan Wen- who have always been so kind to her, and never revealed her existence) have been attacked by Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu. She gets branded she gets hurt, they try and sell her to treasure hunters, bUT
But imagine that she’s left behind her family and Lan Zhan who is also a mermaid and worries that Wei Ying has flown too close to the sun (or the surface) and might have been hurt, SO Lan Zhan comes to find her, and the story proceeds like in the novel 😞
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Writing a sort of Mulan AU with lesbians Wangxian, and I figured out the funniest ending for them: they get married twice, and take turns being the husband.
They spend half the year in Gusu, where the story is that their lovely young jade Lan Zhan, who had been evacuated south to protect her during the war, found herself falling for a war hero from Yunmeng named Wei Wuxian, who was so smitten with her that he left behind his birthright as the eldest son of Lotus Pier (although he is only a ward) to his younger brother and followed her to her family.
In the rest of the year, they live in Yunmeng, where the story is the exact opposite. Wei Ying, sent up north to be educated under the strict hand of the fabled Lan educators after the madam of the house had enough of her shenanigans, had caught the eye of one of the twin jades of Gusu, a dashing young man by the name Lan Wangji. He, in turn, had fallen for her head over heels, which is why he is so kind as to come with her to spend half the year with her family, knowing her deep love for her siblings.
I just think they’d both have a lot of fun with that.
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Femme Wei Ying with a piercings and a lil happy trail. This is her going out fit ~
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